Crash Site of Aeroflot Flight 593

Russia / Kemerovo / Sheregesh /
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Aeroflot Flight 593 was an accident on March 23, 1994 in which a RAL Russian Air Lines Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, operating on behalf of Aeroflot, crashed into a hillside in Siberia. All 75 passengers and crew were killed. The cockpit voice recorder revealed that the pilot's 15-year-old son, Eldar Kudrinsky, was initially at the controls when the incident began, and that he had unknowingly activated an automatic feature of the A310's autopilot that many pilots at the time were unfamiliar with.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
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Coordinates:   53°18'2"N   88°8'58"E
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